懂中文 Dong Chinese
Dictionary
Log in
  • Learn
  • Dictionary
  • Media
  • Settings
待命
dài​mìng

to await orders

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
待命 dài//mìng
to await orders verb + noun
to await orders from a superior; to be on call or on standby

一切都在待命状态。

yī​qiè dōu zài dài mìng zhuàng​tài.

Everything is on standby.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
15.5 per million appears in 5% of films
Written text
2.54 per million

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)